Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Caroline Winterer (The Culture of Classicism) discussed how America's founders were influenced by Greek and Roman philosophies as well those ...

Value is established on the margins. That is a central insight of both Austrian and neoclassical economics, but it is useful in thinking about history as well. Consider the ostracized, marginalized ...

David Hume, the pre-eminent Enlightenment philosopher, was born in Edinburgh in 1711. There he lived for many years, and there he died, perhaps the most famous Scot in history. It was thus ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professor Hadley Arkes talked about the enlightenment ideas that contributed to the concept that power should be derived from the consent of the ...

Most people would agree that progress is a good thing, and few would deny that there has been extraordinary progress over the course of human history, or that human existence has improved in ...

Enlightenment is a term that feels elusive and vague. Some people associate it with a Hindu guru, sitting on top of a mountain contemplating the universe. Or a Buddhist monk living in a monastery, ...